What do you think about this quote?

[siccjay]

She is talking about all the people in the Astrodome.

""So many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them.""
-Barbara Bush

[jakethebake]

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She is talking about all the people in the Astrodome.

""So many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them.""
-Barbara Bush

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I don't even understand what she's trying to say.

[siccjay]

I think she is trying to say that the hurricane damaging peoples homes and making them cram into the Astrodome is actually working out better for them.

[jakethebake]

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I think she is trying to say that the hurricane damaging peoples homes and making them cram into the Astrodome is actually working out better for them.

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Beggars can't be choosers.

[HopeydaFish]

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She is talking about all the people in the Astrodome.

""So many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them.""
-Barbara Bush

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This is so incredibly ignorant that it almost has to be made up.

[-Skeme-]

I heard a different, but similar version. She was saying that they have it better now or something, since they were so poor before, and now they have food and [censored]. What a bitch.

[siccjay]

Here is a link

[Patrick del Poker Grande]

I think her choice of words was very unfortunate.

[touchfaith]

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She is talking about all the people in the Astrodome.

""So many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them.""
-Barbara Bush

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This is so incredibly ignorant that it almost has to be made up.

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It's not fabricated. She really is that ignorant/insensative.

What does that say about the family she raised? You be the judge.

[Pyromaniac]

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I think her choice of words was very unfortunate.

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yeah. giving her the benefit of the doubt, perhaps she meant something like "Why does it take a major disaster for us to pay attention to the bottom end of our society?"

I'd guess that the kids in the Texas school districts are likely to end up with a better education than they'd have gotten otherwise. At least until everyone forgets that they're the Katrina Kids...